The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1887-12-16
Mutations in the Lumber Trade.
The Present Largest Mart
Points About Shingles.

''Gath" in Cincinnati Enquirer,
New YORK, Dec. 3.-The lumber
business concerns every man who
builds house or bridge or buys
railroad ties. While in North Car
oliUa 1 endeavored to know some
thing of the lumber trade after
looking at Il $3S,000 mill near Albe-
marie Sound, aud talking to Mr..
Godfrey, OF New York, who came
from Maine in his youth aud has an
Office on Wall street.
Said [: "Wby do you use Wall
street for lum Der office :"
"Because shall sell lumber only
by the cargo, and therefore do not
require to keep IA lumber yard.
Lumber takes so much space that |
think it Will be found impossible to
maintain aLum6er Exchange. That
has been tried aud proved a failure,
though there are individual sales
of lumber al auction"
"What changes have taken place
in this traffic Z"
"All the changes for several years
past have been ia The direction of
bringing the producer of the lum Der
right up to the ultimate buyer, thus
dispensing with the midllemen. 1t
is the nature of all pursuits to deal
very close, aud to deal in quantities.
Albany, for example, long main
laiued an ascendency in humber,
because 1t took he Western lum Der
which came through the Erie Canal
and stored it on the canal docks,
and the buyers from New York city |
went up there. That is all done |
away with. The New York city !
buyer either goes to Chicago at
present, or tue big dealec iu Chica-
20 comes to New YORK 10 sell the |
lumber yard. CommiSsiOas are
wiped out"
"Whlch is the largest lumber
mart ut preSeutW
"Chicagn is the largest lumber
market in The world
PINE AND MAHOGANY.
"Which OF all kiuds OF lumber
has been of the most utility in the |
United STATES TO hOnse The people,
fence their fields and give them i'm
mediate c0mfurt y
"Uuquestlonably the white pine |
has played the largest part in the
civilization aud aid OF our people.
There is good deal of it lett, but |
its days may be said to be nearly |
numbered, like the days of the
black walnut, of which there is very
little now to be bad, aud, queerly
enough, the tastes of The people
have run away from black walnut
just about the time it becomes
scarce. In that way we make vir-
tue OF necessity without trying to1
do so.n
ais not mahogOny iu much re-
quest at preseutfn
ayes, aud mahogany is the best
of all the hard woods that man has
ever known. 1t runs rather arbi-
trarily, aud 1 have had whole car
go of that lumber out of which oh
tained my return profit from very
few logs. l have known seven ma
hOgahy logs to pay for the whole
cargo, aud / sold one log for 81, 900
at auction. You understand me to
say that the bulk Of lumber and tue
cost OF handling il will initiate
against any general Lumber Ex-
change; this applies to mahogany
also. How are you going TO get
your heavy logs of the vessel up TO /
some place where they can be ex-
amlned -
s'What have been the fluctuations
in the ceuters of the lumber pFoduc- |
tion p
"Why, that depends upon The
kind oflumber you are referring 70. /
il yo1 take Southern lumber or
pine, it may be said that thlrty years
ago Wilmington, in North Carolina,
was the iehiel lumber port. Next
10 that 10 Importance was Charles
ton, and Though both those places
have lost their raUk, they ship moie
lumber At present than they ever
did before. When The uaf Was
about coming on Savannah had got